Krešimir Purgar is Assistant Professor of Visual Studies at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. Among his recent titles is the co-edited volume Theorizing Images (2016), as well as the articles "Coming to Terms with Images: Visual Studies and Beyond" (2016) and "What is not an Image (Anymore)? Iconic Difference, Immersion, and Iconic Simultaneity in the Age of Screens" (2015).
Introduction
Krešimir Purgar
Part 1: Towards a Critical Iconology
1. The Changing Patterns of Iconology: Seven Questions to Mitchell from the 20th Century
Timothy Erwin
2. What is an Image? W.J.T. Mitchell's Picturing Theory
Francesco Gori
3. Post-Structuralist Iconology: Genealogical and Historical Concerns of Mitchell's Image Science
György E. Sz¿nyi
4. Iconology as Cultural Symptomatology: Dinosaurs, Clones and the Golden Calf in Mitchell's Image Theory
Krešimir Purgar
5. Words and Pictures in the Age of the Image: An Interview with W.J.T. Mitchell
Andrew McNamara
Part II: (Post)Disciplinary Context
6. From Image/Text to Biopictures: Key Concepts in W.J.T. Mitchell's Image Theory
Michele Cometa
7. The Birth of the Discipline: W.J.T. Mitchell and the Chicago School of Visual Studies
Ian Verstegen
8. What Discipline? On Mitchell's "Interdisciplinarity" and German Medienwissenschaft
Jens Schröter
9. Mitchell and Boehm - A Dialogue: Image Science in the European Context
Luca Vargiu
10. Images and their Incarnations: An Interview with W.J.T. Mitchell
Asbjørn Grønstad, Øyvind Vågnes
Part III: Interpretive Readings
11. What Do Photographs Want? Mitchell's Theory of Photography from the Camera Obscura to the Networked Lens
Thomas Stubblefield
12. The Eyes Have Ears: Sound in W.J.T. Mitchell's Pictures from Paragone to Occupy Wall Street
Hannah Higgins
13. Living Pictures of Democracy: W.J.T. Mitchell's Iconology as Political Philosophy
Maxime Boidy
14. Showing Showing: Reading Mitchell's "Queer" Metapictures
John Paul Ricco
15. After the Pictorial Turn: An Interview with W.J.T. Mitchell
Krešimir Purgar
Krešimir Purgar
This book will help both students and seasoned scholars to understand key terms in visual studies - pictorial turn, metapictures, literary iconology, image/text, biopictures or living pictures, among many others - while systematically presenting the work of W.J.T.Mitchell as one of the discipline's founders and most prominent figures.